Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

Three recently uncovered tombs on Luxor’s West Bank are rewriting what scholars know about the administrative class of Ancient Egypt. Dating back more than 3,000 years to the New Kingdom, the tombs ...

The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation ...

The tombs were from the New Kingdom (1550–1070 B.C.), and the names and professions of all three men were identified via inscriptions found inside their tombs The tombs, which were unearthed at the ...

French and Egyptian archaeologists exploring ancient Egypt's Tanis necropolis found a puzzling body in the tomb of a king.

Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

New find of 225 ushabti statues in Egypt may identify Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s sarcophagus and rewrite Third Intermediate ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been ...

CAMBRIDGE, England (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Researchers recently discovered a handprint left in an ancient Egyptian tomb over four millennia ago. Researchers from the University of Cambridge were ...

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